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- Georgia Southern University names David Owen as new dean of the College of Arts and HumanitiesDavid Owen, Ph.D., will join Eagle Nation on July 1 to serve as the new Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities (CAH). “I am pleased to welcome David to Georgia Southern as the next generation of leadership for the College of Arts and Humanities,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Carl […]
- Celebrate World Oceans Day with Georgia Southern UniversityAs part of World Ocean Day on June 10, Georgia Southern University will display sculptures in 16 exhibit tanks at the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium in Savannah. The pieces are part of an exhibit at the aquarium titled “SUBMERGED: An Underwater Exhibition of Bioceramic Artwork.”
- Georgia Southern University announces Fulbright US Scholar Award for 2023-2024A noted Georgia Southern University public health professor has earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in All Disciplines to Latvia for the 2023-2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Yelena N. Tarasenko, DrPH, is a professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences at Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Her Fulbright project is titled “Strengthening research and teaching capacity in cancer prevention globally.”
- Economic Monitor Q1 2023: Regional economy’s slow growth continuesSlower growth of the Savannah metro economy continues for the sixth consecutive quarter, according to Georgia Southern University’s Q1 2023 Economic Monitor, even as the Hyundai Metaplant provides a positive undercurrent.
- Social Studies Storytelling in Statesboro kicked off on May 27Every town has a story to tell. Georgia Southern University undergraduate elementary education students, in tandem with faculty and local public history experts, are bringing Statesboro’s history to life with a new digital walking tour, which launches this Saturday, May 27.
- Georgia Southern adding two engineering doctorates this fallGeorgia Southern University is launching two new engineering doctorates – a Ph.D. in applied computing degree and a Ph.D. in engineering – after approval of the programs this week from the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents. With almost 4,000 students in its programs, Georgia Southern’s Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing […]
- Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia to open new four-year campus at Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University in SavannahGeorgia’s only public medical school has received funding approval to open a new four-year campus in Savannah, an expansion that will provide greater access to education and training for medical students and ease the state’s ongoing shortage of physicians.
- Approximately 4,200 degrees conferred during Georgia Southern’s 2023 Spring Commencement ceremoniesLast week, approximately 4,200 graduates from Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro, Armstrong and Liberty campuses received associate, baccalaureate, masters, specialist and doctoral degrees in five Spring 2023 Commencement ceremonies.